![MG seedlings 2](/sierrasuntimes/images/2016/april/MG-seedlings-2.jpg)
Because of our now-it’s-spring, now-it’s-winter-again weather, you may be wary of getting a start on your summer garden. Remember, Mariposa’s historic “last frost date” can come in early May. Ease your mind. Let Mariposa Master Gardeners do the worrying over seeds and seedlings for you.
Since February, MGs have been preparing for the Saturday, May 7, 2016 plant and garden art sale at the Amigo Picnic Area at the Fairgrounds. The sale will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and this year, it is not the same weekend as the Butterfly Festival, so everyone can come early to get the best plants.
There will be an information booth for gardening questions, plus demonstrations and displays of techniques including square-foot gardening, straw-bale gardening, gray-water systems and what plants do well together.
The art table will feature hand-painted tools and rocks, trivets, and hand-made plant ID signs.
![MG Helen redcups](/sierrasuntimes/images/2016/april/MG-Helen-redcups.jpg)
Some of the landscape plants MGs are babying are Coyote Mint, Mexicana Limelight Sage, Queen Red Lime Zinnia, several sunflower varieties, Rose Geranium, “Curly Whurly” sedge, barrel cactus, and heritage roses with their hardiness and fabulous fragrance.
Edibles include raspberries, lots of leafy greens, Armenian and other cucumbers, Brown Turkey fig trees, several varieties of peppers, peas, okra, eggplant, zucchini, melons, and beans.
The herb area includes parsleys, sages, basils, chervil, garlic chives, marjoram, peppermint, rosemary, lemon balm, and everyone’s favorite owie-soother, aloe.